Music: Pittsburgh's Podium

Pittsburgh is famed more for
steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first
concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath.
Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to
conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two
operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean
Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only
American in the Society of German Composers.

Pittsburgh ladies liked Modarelli because he was dark and dynamic, as
attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired...